From: Christoph <chr_news@...>
Date: 2002-09-28T07:05:56+09:00
Subject: Re: inherited change?

"Joel VanderWerf"  wrote
....
> Does this perhaps fix the problem discussed in
> http://www.ruby-talk.org/30366 ?

Well it runs squarely against Guy's argument
(pretty deep down in the associated thread ) that
one should not create the associated class constant
if inherited failed with an exception ...

---
class A
  def self.inherited(sub_klass)
    p sub_klass
    raise
  end
end

begin
class B < A
end
rescue
end

p B
---

--
# output before this change
B
T:\rbAE.tmp:14: uninitialized constant B (NameError)
--
# output today
B
B
---

/Christoph